Christine Arron retires

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Re: Christine Arron retires

The thing is, whether you like athletes who accuse others of drug use or not, in Arron's case, given the time she was sprinting in, she wasn't ENTIRELY wrong, now was she?

And her dramatic progression to 10.73 was, as I said above, was possibly slightly dodgy timing somewhere along the line, which leaves her, for the most part, a fairly consistent athlete for the rest of her career...

I think that was a genuine 10.73 (considering the 2.0 wind), nothing dodgy in the timing. Watch the race for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArMrPomguKk

She was dominant in that 1998 season; it wasn't just that one race. She just happens to be one of the many athletes in history who have one brilliant season and never replicate it.

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Re: Christine Arron retires

The thing is, whether you like athletes who accuse others of drug use or not, in Arron's case, given the time she was sprinting in, she wasn't ENTIRELY wrong, now was she?

And her dramatic progression to 10.73 was, as I said above, was possibly slightly dodgy timing somewhere along the line, which leaves her, for the most part, a fairly consistent athlete for the rest of her career...

I think that was a genuine 10.73 (considering the 2.0 wind), nothing dodgy in the timing. Watch the race for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArMrPomguKk

She was dominant in that 1998 season; it wasn't just that one race. She just happens to be one of the many athletes in history who have one brilliant season and never replicate it.

Amen! How people couldn't see that she was NEVER the same athlete after '98 is because they don't want to see it; it's like they think Jade Johnson was going to win the Olympics (another drugs whiner!) or that Christine Ohurougu wasn't a drug cheat (gh, says missers count as cheats so don't even address it!) or that Paula Radcliffe was going to win the Olympic Marathon :roll:

Arron was definitely wrong to accuse*! If she really believed she was 10.73 ability and that everyone was stealing her shine, then all she had to do was run that again and she would have won gold nearly every time, regardless of who was on drugs or not. In fact, had she run the 10.81 she ran in the semi's of '98 EC's she would have won gold in nearly every champs she ever entered, but she didn't. She didn't win because others were on drugs, she didn't win because she was never in that type of shape again. It's HER, or her coach's fault.

As for her being consistent the rest of her career...she was consistent as an 11.xx sprinter when it took sub-11 to win. In short: she didn't underachieve.

*Most of those athletes passed the same tests that Arron passed.

God forbit a clean athlete should speak out against cheats

Much better to keep your mouth shut or even better, why not join in ? :roll:

That might work for social-grappling superfans, but athletes should be held to a higher standard. Plus, that whole athlete's pledge at the beginning of champs applies to sore losers, imo.

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Re: Christine Arron retires

and with that....